These server addresses can be used with the program UO Trace to help identify connectivity problems causing lag. Details on use of this program can be found here

Server-Based Map Regions

Number

Map Region

Central

Lost Lands (T2A) and chat server.

Area 1

North of Britain, Yew, Minoc.

Area 2

Britain and areas Westward.

Area 3

Trinsic and below, Jhelom.

Area 4

Most of the Ocean. Islands and Vesper

Area 5

The Dungeons and Wind.

Area 6

UO the Second Age add on

TCP/IP Ports

These are the ports that have
to be enabled if you want to play UO via a proxy server.

Number

Usage

5000 - 5010

Game Server

7775 - 7777

Login Server

8888

Patch Server

9999

Patch Server

Shards

These are the 'stories' behind
the names of the various shards

Shard name

Origin

Abyss

The infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name
was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the
lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the gods locked
up their enemies. It gradually came to mean the entire underworld.
As such it was the opposite of Elysium, where happy souls
lived after death.

'Arirang' is the name of a well known Korean folk song.
Another name for the song is 'Harangi Arirang'. Many people
(especially high school band/orchestra players) would recognize
it as the intro theme to 'Variations of a Korean Folk Song',
written by Mr. Chance (I don't remember the first name) ASCAP.
If any of you have played the video game 'Soul Blade', then
you might also recognize it as the name of one of the fighting
stages (where I believe the harmony of the folk song is played
in the background...)

- Asuka is a city in the northern region of Japan about
60 miles west of Sendai.

- Today the term "Asuka" commonly refers
to a
broad area centering around present-day Asuka-mura,
but including parts of Kashihara-shi, Sakurai-shi, Takatori-cho,
etc. However, in the 7th and 8th centuries, "Asuka"
was used primarily in reference to the area bounded
on the west by the Asuka River, bounded on the north
by Mount Kagu (Kaguyama), and having its southern boundary
in the vicinity of the Tachibanadera. The more northerly
area of the Fujiwara capital and also the present-day
districts of Toyura. Hinokuma, etc. (within Asuka-mura)
seem not at that time to have been included in the designation
"Asuka."

Atlantic

Close to the Atlantic ocean.

Baja

A peninsula in California, Mexico

Baekdu

A mountain in North Korea. Baekdu was an experimental shard, located in Korea and prepared exclusively for use in Korean internet game rooms (or "IGRs"). It was allowed to run for a predetermined number of months for testing, after which it was decided to not pursue that variation on the UO service.

Balhae

The name Balhae was voted for by Korean Ultima
Online players and dates from the countrys rich history
as the title of a 7th century dynasty.

Catskills

A mountain range located 2 1/2 hours north of the New York
City metropolitan area and about 3 1/2 hours west of Boston.

Chesapeake

A bay in Maryland (on the East coast).

Drachenfels

Drachenfels refers to a place on the rhine near of Worms
in germany. It is the place where Siegfried slayed Fafnir
the dragon using the magical sword Balmung and a cloak who
granted invisibility. Siegfried bathed in the blood of Fafnir,
thus becoming incredibly strong, agile and invulnerable except
for one spot on his left shoulder where an ahorn leaf covered
his skin (it showed as a tattoo in form of an ahorn leaf).
With slaying Fafnir Siegfried obtained the Nibelungen
hoard, including the magical ring Andvaranaut
which seeks out gold but was hexed by Andvari
into giving all his bearers bad luck and pain. The posession
of the ring leads to the tragic event when his brother-in-law
Hagen murders Siegfried after pain and misfortune wrecked
havock upon Siegfrieds family.

Europa

Europa was the daughter of Agenor, and was beloved by Zeus.
Zeus took the form of a beautiful white bull and encountered
Europa at the seashore. By appearing to be very tame, he coaxed
her to climb onto his back and then swam off with her across
the sea to Crete. In Crete, Europa had three sons by Zeus
-- Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys. Zeus also gave her three
gifts: the bronze man, Talos, to act as her guardian; a dog,
Laelaps, which never failed of its quarry; and a javelin which
never missed its mark. Europa afterwards married Asterius,
the king of Crete.

Formosa

The name "Formosa" is an old name for the island
country of Taiwan and dates back to the 1500's when Portuguese
explorers discovered the island. This discovery opened the
doors for trade with the Western world; an economic tradition
which has continued over the past 500 years. Formosa means
"the beautiful" in Portuguese.

Great Lakes

A group of 5 lakes. The Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region includes
the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Ohio, Ontario and Wisconsin.

Hokuto

The "Great Bear" constellation. Hokuto Sheisei
= north star.

Izumo

Izumo is an existing Japanese city with a deep historical
background and is also famous for the foreword thinking municipal
programs that have been adopted lately. Many Japanese are
familiar with this city, and with Izumo-taisha, which is an
old Japanese shrine that imparts good luck for finding your
mate. The city boasts a history rich with legendary stories
and a culture from which many medieval samurais came. The
Japanese characters for this name mean &lsquo;cloud is
out&rsquo; or &lsquo;coming out of cloud.&rsquo;

Lake Austin

Launched at the time of the 5th Year Anniversary in 2002. It is named after the twenty-two mile long body of water in Central Texas that runs right past the place where UO was born, the home office of Origin Systems.

Lake Superior

One of the 5 lakes in the Great Lakes area. The other 4
are Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

Legends

Opened originally in 2000 as AOL Legends shard, it was the only Ultima Online shard available exclusively through the America Online service. Initially called AOL Sosaria, but later renamed to AOL Legends in honor of Legends of Kesmai, one of the forerunners in the online role-playing game industry. In 2003 it was again renamed, losing the AOL name and exclusivity and opening its doors to all players worldwide.

Mizuho

The name Mizuho dates from ancient times, when Japan was
called "Land of Mizuho". Mizuho stands for beautiful
water, and Japan has been long famous for its rich rice harvest.
The shard name was chosen from submissions to the official
UO Japanese website http://www.jp.uo.com
and voted on by UO players via the website.

Napa Valley

A large wine producing valley in California not far from
the Sonoma region.

Oceania

Named for the approximately 25,000 islands located in the
area of the Pacific Ocean known as the South Seas.

Origin

Launched in December 2004 this shard is the first to receive new publishes. Named for the birthplace of the game, Origin Systems.

Pacific

Close to the Pacific ocean.

Sakura

The name Sakura is borrowed from the national flower of
Japan, where Sakura trees boast beautiful blossoms during
springtime.

Siege Perilous

Siège means seat in French (note the accent over the first
e)... so in fact the Siège Perilous means "Perilous Seat".

Also the name of the first moongate the traveler from time
and space (later known as the Avatar) used to enter Sosaria
was called Siege Perilous in Ultima lore. (Ultima 1)

In Arthurian legend this was the name given to the one
seat made from stone that for many years was left empty
at the Round Table. Malory tells us that it was made by
Merlin (II, 907 in Vinaver's ed.).
It was said that only a Knight pure enough to search for
and find the Grail could take this seat. The first in Arthurian
legend was Perceval and then in later legends Galahad who
became known as a Grail Knight deemed worthy enough to sit
in it when both embarked upon the Siege Perilous. The siege
perilous was much revered and believed that it would crack
if anyone not worthy of sitting in it tried to do so. Other
reports said that the seat would devour any person who had
presumed themselves worthy enough to sit on it.
The seat was said to have cracked when Perceval sat in it,
but it was later healed when he became a Grail Knight.
When Lancelot sinned by cavorting with Lady Guinevere his
chance to sit in the chair and his chance to see the holy
grail were forfeited. His son Galahad was the one to occupy
the chair.
Sir Galahad eventually sat at the Siege Perilous. Although
Percival was the first Knight to "see" the Holy
Grail, Galahad completed the Quest. Ironically, Galahad
is the son of Elaine and Lancelot.

Sonoma

A well renowned wine producing region in California. It
is adjacent to, and just north/north east of the Napa Valley
region.

Wakoku

Ancient name for Japan

Yamato

- Area of Japan long ago (the Kanto area of ancient Japan)

- A city close to Osaka on the south/central end of Japan.
Also the 3 Yamato Mountains is the name as a whole of Unebi-yama,
Miminashi-yama, Amano-kaguyama mountains located in the
north of Asuka region. They are separated 3 km from each
other and form a triangle: capital Fujiwara-kyo is in the
central low land.

- TV
Animation series starring a group of highly skilled
and carefully selected young people under the command
of Captain Avatar.

Server Down Times

Bertram
di Vega sent us this interesting bit of info regarding backups and
server downtimes:

I received this reply from GM Darwin in regards to an
email I sent to [email protected] I was concerned about the fluctuating
times that various servers have been going down for maintainence.
According to the server maintainence schedule published by OSI on
their website, the servers are taken down for maintainence at 5
AM local server time. This is not always the case and some servers
have been taken down as long as two hours late.

Hi there,

I am sorry that the game server downtimes have inconvenienced
you. Here is a detailed explanation of how the server downtimes
work so that you can understand what is going on "behind
the scenes" so to speak. :-) All of the game servers begin
checking themselves at 4:45 AM local server time for the last
completed backup. Once a backup is completed after that time,
the game "goes down" for its daily maintenance and
immediately starts itself back up.

Therefore, if a backup completes at 4:59 AM, then the server
will have a perfect downtime at 5AM, right on schedule. However,
if the game completes a backup at say 4:20AM, it then begins
the next backup, moving right through 5AM to whatever time it
completes the next backup. The Ultima Online game servers are
constantly in a state of backing themselves up. If the new backup
happens to take until 6AM or so to complete, the server will
continue to wait to go down until the backup is complete at
6AM.

We do shoot for as close to 5AM local server time as possible.
However, due to the enormous task of saving the game data associated
with the giant Ultima Online world, we have to settle for a
downtime of as close to 5AM as we can while maintaining the
most current backup file.